55 percent of American voters identified Edward Snowden as a “whistleblower” in July 2013
34 percent of American voters identified Snowden as a “traitor” in July 2013
40 days that journalists camped in the Moscow airport while Snowden waited for asylum
33 percent of Hong Kong residents consider Snowden “a hero”
956,107 YouTube views of “citizen journalism” video of arrest caught with Google Glass as of August 5
2 months’ (April and May 2012) worth of AP journalists’ phone records that the Justice Department seized in 2012
1,811 uses of the phrase “post racial” in English-language news media in the year after Barack Obama’s election in 2008
268 uses of the phrase “post racial” in English-language news media in the two weeks following the July 13 verdict in the Trayvon Martin case.
Sources: Quinnipiac University, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, YouTube, AP.org, LexisNexis
Alexis Sobel Fitts is a senior writer at CJR. Follow her on Twitter at @fittsofalexis.